Commentary: Bereavement an independent risk factor for psychiatric symptoms in young people

The study by Kaplow and colleagues sought to compare psychiatric symptoms in parentally bereaved adolescents, adolescents' bereavement due to the loss of others and non-bereaved adolescents. It adds to the growing literature in the area of childhood bereavement and uses a longitudinal design to determine the differences in symptoms based on the type of loss, while further considering the role of environmental and individual factors which pre-existed the loss.